If elected on Friday, Paetongtarn had become Thailand’s following sexual prime minister and the second Shinawatra to hold the top position.
” We were assured that under her leadership, we may all help her and get ready to carry out her plans from the day she assumes office”, Anutin Charnvirakul, head of the Bhumjaithai Party, told a press conference to announce Paetongtarn as their member.
Srettha’s dismissal as the group’s third top to be voided by a court order may signal the end of a tense relationship between Thaksin and his adversaries in the liberal elite and the military elite, which had enabled his tycoon’s return from self-exile in 2023 and ally Srettha’s election as prime minister the same day.
The 11-party empire holds 314 seats in the house, of which 141 belong to Pheu Thai, and should have no trouble electing a prime minister on Friday, providing it remains unchanged.
More than half of the 493 politicians in place right now need to support a prospect to be leading.